Moments In Life...

...that simply take your breath away!

A normal evening after tea sat on sofa with a brew with my beloved and just for a second I actually took in my surroundings and I watched Bubba go from one side of the room to the other pushing his train and for one moment I simply could not breath for how perfect my life was in that moment.

Life is a funny old thing and the smallest of thing to one person could be the biggest to someone else. I'm sure many of you have had this feeling but how many do you actually retain in that vast memory of yours??
In my 29 years I can list these moments on 2 hands. I have a shocking short term memory but long term is pretty damn good. 
Here are my moments some happy and some tainted

1) The first night after I had moved out of my family home. 

I remember sitting in my new bedroom surrounded by things from my old one and thinking 'that's it then I'm all grown up' and never wanting my mummy more.

2) Mum's ordination

I had a fantastic childhood with a mum who was there when we went to school and when we came home and once we had grown she found her calling to be a Methodist Minister. Watching her be ordained was the most respect I have ever had for one person in my whole life.

3) That 1st kiss 

1st date went well and at the end he leaned in for the softest kiss I had ever experienced and I literally could not breath for being overwhelmed. I knew there and then he would be my everything and 4 years on he still is.

4) Grandads funeral 

My mum conducted her own dad's funeral...never been so proud. No more to be said!

5) Pregnancy Test

Peed on a stick and left it on side, went back to throw it in the bin knowing it would be negative and just as the lid closed I saw that second line. Took me 20 mins to tell my partner for the shock. The one thing we wanted more than anything but told not to expect it to ever happen...Miracles do happen.

7) Phonecall

I had 10 mins since finished Bubba's nursery and the beloved received a phone call from our best friends to say they had lost their little one. I could not speak or breath for the grief and horror that life could be so cruel. Makes you realise what a miracle life really is and how blessed you are to be granted the gift of being a parent. (Pleased to say they are now 21 weeks pregnant :-) ) 

6) Bubba is born

The day after Bubba was born I was trying to sleep and he was fast asleep on daddy's chest between visitors, I had I Pod on and a song said it all...

Well a light came shining in
When you took my breath away
Now I know I've waited all my life
To do what I feel today
So tell me I'm dreaming
Coz I can't hold back these tears I cry
And you never looked more beautiful tonight
So if I'm dreaming
Don't wake me up I'm so alive
Wish you could see what I see
Through these eyes of mine

7) Bubba meets Grandma & Grandad

The happiness in their eyes for the Grandchild they never though they would have.

There are many more I'm sure but I know these will be my 'Rocking Chair Moments' when that stage of life is upon me. 
Make sure you store your moments happy and sad and make them count.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

“Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that last a life time

''For some moments in life there are no words''